Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Ok, "latest" was a bit of an exaggeration. Fact is that the MiKTeX > installer needs versions of Windows DLLs which are *not* in e.g. a > WinNT4 installation up to Service Pack 5 (the latest that I've > installed).
Is there some reason you can't install SP 6a? I don't know if that would have what you need either, but still, why go slumming any more than you have to? > I bet it won't work on Win95 either. Maybe not. Probably not on Win3.1 either. Or 3.0. Or DOS. With all due respect friend, 1995 *was* approximately six years ago. > The MiKTeX maintainer > used to distribute these DLLs but he does so no more. It's likely not legal for him to do so, depending on the particular DLLs in question. > You wrongly > assume that everyone happily uses Internet Explorer, so this is not a > reasonable path to provide the missing DLLs. Well, you wrongly assume that just because you have Internet Explorer installed that you're forced to use it, happily or otherwise. You aren't. > So on an older Windows > system *without* Internet Explorer MiKTeX will not install. Period. > Ok, so install IE then. Or get a newer version of Windows. Problem solved, no? Or hey, better yet, install a 'real OS' like Linux that you'll *never* have to update! Never did quite understand how exactly that worked.... > (Please excuse my rants about MiKTeX. IMHO it is bad software design > to couple a widely ported software like TeX to the Windows/IE update > spiral by means of the installation software. The Cygwin and fpTeX > installers show that this is not necessary) Neither work on Windows 3.1. Or DOS. I don't see how that then qualifies as 'bad software design'. Don't get me wrong Markus, I'm a far cry from Bill's biggest fan, and I'm (trying to) use Cygwin's teTeX myself, but I don't think you're thinking is entirely clear here. You're using Cygwin right? Hence Windows? Hence you've chosen to get on that "Windows/IE update spiral"? I don't understand; you'd prefer that Windows was the same now as it was in 1995? Why not the same as it was in the even-worse-old-days of 3.1? Or 3.0? Or 2.0? Or DOS? Time marches on, and not just in Windows-land: what was Linux looking like back in '95? Will a '95-vintage Linux installation build and run teTeX? Jeez, now you got me ranting ;-). Sorry folks. Gary R. Van Sickle Braemar Inc. 11481 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
